[B-Greek] Funk's Beginning-Intermediate grammar - BDF replacement
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat May 29 08:03:05 EDT 2004
At 12:56 PM +0100 5/29/04, Maurice A. O'Sullivan wrote:
>At 11:18 29/05/2004, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
>>First I've heard of this; does anyone else know of it; sounds good on the
>>surface of it; I would certainly hope that it would cover Hellenistic Greek
>>rather than strictly Biblical Greek--or Biblical Greek in the context of
>>Hellenistic Greek. Anybody know anything more about this?
>
>Carl:
>
>This is _very_ old hat -- twelve years old, in fact.
>
>The original poster was reading the back cover of the second edition of the
>paperback version ( wrongly dated 1992 in the amazon.com database ).
>
>Originally published in paperback in 1992, my copy is the " second edition
>with corrections 1994 ", and carries the same "promise".
>
>I think we can all remember those golden days of the eighties and early
>nineties when publishing houses were falling over one another to start what
>-- from the back cover blurbs -- sounded like mouth-watering series.
>
>Isn't there a tag beginning: " Eheu, ......."?
Yes, it's Horace: Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume,/labuntur anni ..
"Alas, the fleeting years slip away, dear Postumus ..."
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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